10:08 AM,
Sep. 21, 2013

An Apple worker in Pasadena, Calif., addresses the crowd waiting to purchase new iPhones on Sept. 20, 2013.

Written by

Michael Winter
USA TODAY

A businessman scheming to get his profit-minded hands on dozens of new iPhones allegedly recruited about 100 homeless people from Skid Row in Los Angeles to wait in line overnight at the Pasadena Apple Store, but many were left unpaid and stranded after his plan was exposed, local media reported Friday.

The unidentified reseller had offered $40 to each hired hand who bought an iPhone for him, which he bragged about to others in the line of about 200 people, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune
reported. When they learned of the scheme, store personnel stopped selling the latest iPhone models to the ...